Matthew 27:63

Lord, we remember that that deceiver, while yet living, said, After three days I will rise.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

In Context

62And on the following day, which is after the Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate, saying,

64Command therefore that the tomb be made safe until the third day, lest His disciples having come, may steal Him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead: and the last error shall be worse than the first.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:21And from this time Jesus began to show to His disciples, that it behooves Him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders and the chief priest and the scribes, and to be killed, and rise the third day.

Matthew 20:19and they will deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and scourge, and crucify Him: and on the third day He will rise.

Mark 8:31And He began to teach them, that it behooves the Son of man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise.

Luke 9:22Saying, That it behooved the Son of man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be killed, and to rise the third day.

Luke 23:2And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found Him perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that He is Christ, a King.

John 2:19Jesus responded and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will rear it up.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:58-66

The Burial of Christ. 57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: 58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. 59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting… Read the whole commentary →

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